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...Crimson managed to scrape a few runs together in the middle innings to stay within striking distance...
...marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw her out and got himself a new wife. Alone and abandoned, Devika is trying to scrape by. "I can barely afford vegetables," she says, gesturing to her wicker basket of nuts and the few customers standing nearby eating them. "But what else can I do? Some days I eat peanuts for supper...
...calls "the missus," doesn't always play by the rules. At 15 he left school, then eschewed his upper-middle class for a life of globe trotting and barhopping. Along the way he acquired the long knife scar on his left cheek. Last summer he got into a scrape with a male fan because "our house got sieged," he says. "One day I couldn't even drive my car out of the house, so I got out and kicked someone. We haven't had a fan since...
...Bush isn't talking so gloomily because he's panicking. Greenspan hasn't let the U.S. economy so much as scrape its knee in a long, long time. The plane (sorry about changing that metaphor), which has been on a steep ascent all year, is leveling off as corrections in the markets provide a downdraft and the New Economy succumbs to a touch of jetlag. But we haven't crashed yet, and we jettisoned inflation fears over Lake Michigan sometime this fall...
...like Harry Bailey and Sam Wainwright--or even, God help us, like Mr. Potter, the wealthy, grasping banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little bit of divine intervention...